Lycée Français du Caire (LFC; Arabic: الثانوية الفرنسية بالقاهرة) is the French International School in Cairo, Egypt.
It is directly operated by the Agency for French Education Abroad (AEFE), an agency of the French government.
Structure
There are three primary campuses, with one each in Maadi, New Cairo City, and Zamalek. The secondary classes are held in a campus in El Mearag.
The school has more than 2000 pupils and 140 teachers.
History
The school was founded in 1911, with its first campus being in Maadi. In the 1970s, a second campus was opened in Zamalek.
In 1990 a third campus was opened in Heliopolis. It later relocated to Rehab in 2004 and then to New Cairo in 2015.
Between 2011 and 2013, construction took place on a fourth site in El Mearag to accommodate middle and high school students. The site was officially inaugurated in 2015.
See also
- Egypt–France relations
References
External links
- Lycée Français du Caire website (in French)
- Le site des anciens du Lycée Français du Caire website
- The unofficial student newspaper
- The Facebook page supporting the suspended teacher
